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Roy Bahat

Head of Bloomberg Beta

Head of Bloomberg Beta, a venture capital firm investing in the future of work, Roy has spent time making startups, as a corporate executive, in government, media, and academia — and is one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business. He also co-chaired, with New America’s Anne-Marie Slaughter, the Shift Commission, a national effort to understand the 10-20 year future of work in America.

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Bloomberg Beta Head Roy Bahat may spend his days “slinging money around,” as he phrases it, discovering and investing in hot new artificial intelligence (AI) startups, but he devotes much of his free time helping to imagine and plan for the future of work.

America today desperately needs a 21st-century model that enables companies and increasingly independent workers to thrive together in our new high-tech, global economy. A polarized, paralyzed government in Washington D.C. won’t lead the way anytime soon. Is it time for a “Treaty of San Francisco” which replicates the 1950 “Treaty of Detroit?”